Biological, physical and chemical properties at the Subtropical Shelf Front Zone in the SW Atlantic Continental Shelf

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1662-1673

  Muelbert, José H ^a   Acha, Marcelo ^b   Mianzan, Hermes ^b   Guerrero, Raúl ^b   Reta, Raúl ^b   Braga, Elisabete S ^c   Garcia, Virginia M T ^a   Berasategui, Alejandro ^d   Gomez Erache, Mónica ^e   Ramírez, Fernando ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Copepods; Ichthyoplankton; Physical biological interactions; Plankton dynamics; Shelf fronts; Southwest Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTY; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTACEAN; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

COPEPODA;

EID: 46149106354     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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